The freezing cold, the impenetrable fog, and impossibly strong winds made Attu, one of several islands in the westernmost ...

Before the United States entered World War II, few Americans would have suspected that the territory of Alaska would play a role in America's fight against the Axis powers. In 1940, Alaska was ...

On the Alaska Highway project ... becoming one of the first recognized heroes of World War II. The Tuskegee Airmen broke through another of the military's barriers. During World War II, the ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Helena Pagano’s great-grandfather was the last Alaska Native chief of a remote island in the Bering Sea, closer to Russia than North America. He died starving as a prisoner of ...

Since the late 1970s, the University of Alaska Fairbanks' Geophysical Institute has provided this column free in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell [email protected] is a ...

A World War II-era plane crashed along a river near Fairbanks, Alaska, according to Alaska State Troopers. Troopers said in an online dispatch a Douglas C-54, a four-engine propeller transport ...

Though their timing was off — the Civil War was over for two months when the Shenandoah reached Alaska waters from England (after an eight-month trip around the southern capes of Africa and ...

With its origin point in Dawson Creek, B.C., it extends more than 2,000 kilometres through Whitehorse, before ending just southeast of Fairbanks, Alaska. It was built in the Second World War by the ...